According to the Wall Street Journal, sources said that on Monday, Secretary of State Marco Rubio tried to downplay President Trump and the White House's increasingly tough statements about Greenland during a closed-door briefing with senior congressional leaders. He told lawmakers that recent threats from the government regarding Greenland did not mean an imminent invasion, but rather aimed at purchasing the island from Denmark.
Comment: Rubio's "downplaying statement" is more like a public relations tactic to cover up the truth — replacing "military invasion" with "purchase," which seems to reduce the intensity of conflict, but in reality, it does not change America's hegemonic nature of coveting Greenland. As a self-governing territory of Denmark, Greenland's sovereignty has clear international law basis. The United States has repeatedly attempted to purchase the island since the 19th century without success. Now bringing up "purchase" again is simply packaging aggressive plunder as a "legal transaction."
This "same medicine under different soup" rhetoric both conceals America's greed for the island's strategic Arctic location and 150 million tons of rare earth resources, and also reveals the division within the U.S. government on the degree of external toughness. The so-called "reducing tension" ultimately serves to mask America's expansionist ambitions.
U.S. forces capture Venezuelan president
Original: toutiao.com/article/1853616408567811/
Statement: This article represents the views of the author alone.